Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pirates are long since gone from the Spanish Main, and so are the slave traders. Their techniques, though, are well-remembered in Communist Cuba. Last week four members of the Cuban Families Committee for Liberation of Prisoners of War flew to Havana on a sorry mission-to negotiate the auction of 1,179 prisoners captured in last year's abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. A mass trial had found them guilty of treason; now at prices ranging from $25,000 to $500,000, Castro offered them for sale. Otherwise, said he. the prisoners would serve 30 years in prison...
...became progressively more disenchanted. He gave up poetry and threw himself into languages and science. He became a wanderer, enlisting indiscriminately in armies and circuses. He was a bricklayer in Cyprus, a stevedore in Marseille, a deserter from the Dutch army in Batavia; a trader, gunrunner, explorer and attempted slave trader in Africa. In 1891, grievously ill, he returned to France to die. Enid Starkie, a lecturer at Oxford, has devoted most of her energy to Rimbaud, and this book is a revised and expanded version of her magnum opus. As a biography, it is the ablest assemblage...
...into a suitcase?" she asked. Looking at her trim 5-ft., 100-lb. figure, Bernd gulped his drink and said they could try. If caught, Maria thought it meant three years in jail for her, ten for Bernd. "They'd accuse you of being a Western slave trader." They paid $6.50 for a brown plasterboard suitcase that...
...drafted, the baker quietly becomes the man of the house, running the farm and protecting the wife and children as if they were his own. In the last reel, Cayatte adroitly points the moral: liberation makes the baker truly a free man, but it leaves the journalist still a slave to his own weakness...
Better Brave Than Slave...